Another Happy Day

Name: Another Happy Day
Genre: Drama
Released: November 18, 2011
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 46

2011

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Phase 4 Films | Release Date: November 18, 2011 | R

Summary: A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn as she arrives at her parents’ Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children. Lynn’s hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades atA family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn as she arrives at her parents’ Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children. Lynn’s hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice, a fragile young woman, fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother, ailing, distant father and ever-judgmental sisters, but most especially by her ex-husband Paul and his hot-tempered second wife Patty. Confronted, oftentimes hilariously, with the deeply painful, half-buried truths that have given rise to the family’s primal web of resentments and recriminations, Lynn struggles to maintain her equilibrium as her best attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course. (Phase 4 Films)… Expand

Director: Sam Levinson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 119 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Nov 18, 2011

The younger Levinson has considerable storytelling talent, an admirable honesty and a streak of ruthlessness. Read full review

Rex Reed

Nov 16, 2011

I tend to forget how marvelous Ellen Barkin can be until she gets the rare chance to pull out all the stops in a movie like this. Read full review

Sam Adams

Nov 16, 2011

Levinson stuffs the movie with so many emotional cross-currents and minor revelations that it's hard to keep them all straight, but the movie works the audience's nerves with enough determination to get under the skin and stay there, a sensation that comes awfully close to an earned emotional response. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Nov 16, 2011

As the groom's brassy-babe stepmother, Demi Moore does her own share of scenery chewing, but at least she looks like she's having fun. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Nov 17, 2011

It's Barkin, though, who holds everything together, even as her character is falling apart. Whether or not she took this role as a favor - Levinson's father, Barry, directed her in "Diner" decades ago - ultimately seems irrelevant. This isn't an invitation you should feel obliged to accept. But if you decide to stop by, she'll be the reason you stay. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Nov 1, 2011

Mistaking over-the-top dysfunctional family cruelty for comedy and drama, Another Happy Day tries and fails to channel "Rachel Getting Married" in its protracted tale of a wedding-party weekend that turns predictably from scabrous to redemptive. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Nov 15, 2011

Hoping to distract us from the zero ideas found in his film, Levinson demands that his cast act loudly and unbearably, a task for which Demi Moore, as the second wife of Ellen's first husband, is perfectly suited. Read full review

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audreythomas25

Feb 29, 2016

Superb writing, a quickly moving plot and outstanding lead performances make this one a winner.

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nameless

Nov 27, 2011

Ellen Barkin is very courageous, she plays a character that is impossible to like. A character so self centered and self destructive that she makes House look like a people person. The difference is she thinks she is rational all the time and perpetually confused as to why she is rebuffedEllen Barkin is very courageous, she plays a character that is impossible to like. A character so self centered and self destructive that she makes House look like a people person. The difference is she thinks she is rational all the time and perpetually confused as to why she is rebuffed but never gives up in the righteousness of her point of view. It makes you think of people you have met like this. From an audience point of view you want to identify or like someone in this movie but every character is very hard to take. That makes this a tough movie to watch but you think about it for days afterwards... it haunts you.… Expand

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movieboy

Dec 7, 2011

It's actually quite an interesting film with a swirling cast of dysfunctional characters who kind of compete for who is nuttier. It's more Bergmanesque than comedic and benefits from some great acting. Funny how one major reviewer suggested the only sane person is the family matriarch,It's actually quite an interesting film with a swirling cast of dysfunctional characters who kind of compete for who is nuttier. It's more Bergmanesque than comedic and benefits from some great acting. Funny how one major reviewer suggested the only sane person is the family matriarch, played by Ellen Burstyn, but she's as wacky as the rest. It manages to be both enjoyable and rather painful.… Expand

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jeremyp

Aug 28, 2012

This is a very depressing movie about a family reunion at a wedding. At the outset let me tell you that the only sympathetic character in it is a borderline who cuts herself, and she is sympathetic only because we hear such awful things about her before meeting her we are pleasantlyThis is a very depressing movie about a family reunion at a wedding. At the outset let me tell you that the only sympathetic character in it is a borderline who cuts herself, and she is sympathetic only because we hear such awful things about her before meeting her we are pleasantly surprised to see her presented as the most stable in the family. As a Family Therapist I can tell you this movie would make a great teaching tool. Every kind of crazy making behavior is presented. There are predators galore in many guises, and quite a few victims. Ellen Barkin pulls off a bravura performance as a panicked, put upon mother whose brood consists of the above mentioned borderline and an addicted, self centered, car crash of a son. She gets no help from an empty space of a husband (played blithely by "The Walking Dead's" Jeffrey DeMunn), and plenty of interference from her mother (Ellen Burstyn) a cold disinterested matriarch concerned with her looming widowhood, and her ex husbands wife (Demi Moore) who insists on taking all the credit for raising Barkin's son to perfection., not to mention two sadists masquerading as sisters.
I credit the movie for not shoving our nose too deep into psychoanalysis and finger pointing. After seeing this be sure to call your relatives and take a moment to love them.… Expand

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